Film Review: Spiderman Home coming

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Cert:12A

Director: Jon Watts

Screenwriter: (screenplay) Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers,  (based on the Marvel comic book by) Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

Starring: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau,  Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Abraham Attah, Hannibal Buress

Running time: 2h 13min

Parents advised reading before viewing a film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: None

Violence & Gore: There is some scene where Spider-man is being pun-ailed into the ground.

Profanity: Surprisingly Frequent Moderate Language, including "bulls**t, dumb**, etc."

Middle finger is shot in one scene 

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Aunt May drinks beer in one scene

Peter is offered a drink but refuses as he's too young

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some scenes are pretty intense but pretty mild on the story.

Story: Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark, Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine - distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - but when the Vulture emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened

Likes : First of all, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon like almost everyone else and giving this film high regards just because it’s Marvel; this will be a fair and unbiased review, but there are a few things about this film that I’m sadly going to have to tear into and it’s not nitpicking.

First thing’s first: Michael Keaton’s character is the strongest character in this film and that's saying something, at least because he seems to be the only one carrying this film forward, especially from a villain’s origin standpoint.

This is something this film got right- you see the villain as they are pushed to the point where they snap or do something because of family. This is perfectly shown with Michael Keaton’s character becoming the Vulture.

Action wise- when we do get to the action scenes- it is pretty good, along with the C.G.I; I will admit that the suit design on Spider-Man is better than before, with a few upgrades courtesy of  Stark.

It’s just a shame the writing for Tom Holland was weak- which was strange after seeing him in Civil War. What I mean is that he seemed more confident and sure of himself in Civil War like he knew what he was doing; but here, not so much, which I’ll explain more in dislikes.

The school life aspect is okay in areas, although the acting is really bad at certain points. There were a lot of scenes that didn't really need to be in the film; to be honest, there isn't much I can say on the story as a whole because it was hard to just piece the film together. Sadly, for a Spider-Man film, I was pretty disappointed with this film.

Dislikes: Here are my problems with this film, which I knew with Amy Pascal being involved in this film’s production as with the Ghostbusters film, as the jokes misfire and off timing really showed in the film along with other problems.

The dick jokes seriously weren't needed in this. From Flash Thompson’s character -who, this time, is played by an Indian kid named Tony Revolori- and MJ, as she called herself in the film- played by Zendaya- was hardly in the film more of a cameo and was a complete waste of a character.

The film, as a whole, felt more about the Avengers then Spider-Man as the film referenced them almost all the way through the film, with product placement and the pointless Captain America scene; you end up asking if this a Spider-Man film or Avengers film.

Not to mention it felt more like an Iron Man film than a Spider-Man. The story is meant to be about Spider-Man but, to be honest, his character was completely overshadowed by Michael Keaton and Robert Downey, Jr. and having a weak character script.

Here are the biggest flaw and the most disjointed part of the film- the piss-poor acting coming from the school parts with the tv school radio thing. These scenes were unnecessary in the film and really took the realism of school life out. It was like we were watching some Disney channel show. What the hell were they thinking to put this in the film?

This is by far the weakest Spider-Man I've ever seen and I wish I was joking around. I wanted this film to actually work, don't get me wrong- I'm sure Tom Holland is a great actor- but the way he was written in this film was just awful.

We saw him in Civil War as this confident, self-aware, knowledgeable hero who knew what he was doing and looked good on screen; in this film, his written in the complete opposite direction, like the producer forgot the concept from Civil War; because he felt like a complete rookie with everything.

It's like this through the whole first and second act of the film, where it felt like the writers made him a complete idiot clowning around doing absolutely nothing. I mean, it's meant to be a Spider-Man film- shouldn't these scenes that are being wasted on clowning around doing nothing be replaced by scenes where he actually catching criminals like Toby and Garfield’s Spider-Man films did before?

This is why Michael Keaton’s character felt more of the film’s main focus- the rest of the film felt more like a disjointed mess of wasted scenes and pointless moment with Captain America on screen giving a speech- I mean, is this meant to be funny?

In all seriousness, I thought David Goyer was a hack, but Amy Pascal is worse and needs to stay away from any franchise- or films completely- because this is such a disappointment for a Spider-Man film the only thing this film actually got right was the villain.

Question to those that have seen this: Did you feel this was done right, or do you agree that the only thing holding this film was the villain and that the rest of the film felt like a push of the Avengers too much?  

  

Overall: Great villain, weak Spider-Man, good action, pointless scenes that could've been used for other scenes.

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for Entertainment / 6.3 out of 10 for reboot Spider-Man character